Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,965 pages of information and 246,440 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Taylor and Kent

From Graces Guide

of Florence Works, High Street, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent, China and Majolica manufacturers

1876 Company founded[1]

The company was controlled by the Kent family from an early stage.

1941 The company closed temporarily for the duration of the Second World War.

1947 Purchased by two brothers - Oswald and Derek Shufflebottom.

1961 the company used the trade name 'Elizabethan China'

1982 the company became Elizabethan Fine Bone China Ltd

1994 Churchill China took over Florence Works

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Sources of Information

  1. The date on the frontage of the works is '1876'
  • [1] Potteries website